CORPORAL. An epithet for anything belonging to the body, as, corporal
punishment, for punishment inflicted on the person of the criminal; corporal
oath, which is an oath by the party who takes it being obliged to lay his
hand on the Bible.

CORPORAL, in the army. A non-commissioned officer in a battalion of
infantry.

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